Trademark Board Refusal To Register Box Designs Affirmed By Federal Circuit

Mealey's (November 6, 2020, 1:39 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An examining attorney’s determination that two box designs for electric cables and wires are unprotectable as functional, later upheld by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, was proper, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Nov. 5 (In re:  Reelex Packaging Solutions Inc., No. 20-1282, Fed. Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 35083)....